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The world’s smallest chameleon, the Brookesia micra chameleon lives on the island of Madagascar. Chameleon Cutie
Adult males grow to only about a half- inch (16 millimeters) from nose to tail. This chameleon is so small that you might miss it if you don’t look very closely. In fact, scientists
The world is full of tiny, adorable animals. This month, meet some of them in Kid Scoop News!
did miss this tiny guy for a long time.
Circle every third number to discover the year the Brookesia micra chameleon was discovered.
Replace the missing words.
The Paedophryne amauensis frog is about the size of a housefly. It is so tiny that it can fit on a grape. It measures only about a third of an inch or 7.7 millimeters long.
Madame Berthe’s Mouse Lemur The world’s smallest primate ________ only one ounce (30 grams), or about the same as a slice of ________. It is called Madame Berthe’s mouse lemur. While the cute critter is super tiny, it has large eyes which help it ______ at night and a tail that is _______ than its body.
Christopher Austin is a herpetologist —a scientist that studies reptiles and amphibians. He wanted to find the animal making an unusual “tink-tink-tink” sound in the tropical forest of Papua New Guinea. He heard the noise coming from some dead leaves on the How a Scientist Discovered the Tiny Frog Can you nd each frog’s identical twin?
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forest floor. He looked and looked but couldn’t find any animals. He grabbed a clump of the leaves and put them into a bag. Back
It’s the smallest bird in the world and weighs less than two ounces (57g). Don’t let its size fool you! It’s tiny but powerful. It can flap its little wings 80 times per second!
at his camp, he checked each of the hundreds of leaves in the bag. Imagine his happy surprise when a tiny animal hopped off one of the leaves. It was a tiny frog that no one had ever seen before. Standards Link: Life Science: Animals have structures that serve different functions in survival.
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